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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 9246934" data-attributes="member: 23">The dragonborn in the phb is definitely mechanically underwhelming.&nbsp; I remember seeing the race for the very first time, telling myself &quot;omg this is going to be a powergamer's dream!&quot; kept reading and went... huh.&nbsp; I have seen very few in my games, if any.&nbsp; Perhaps one or two one-shot types. One thing about 5e I do like is that it can tolerate a fair amount of reflavoring and slight tweaking.&nbsp; I had a character who was a &quot;fighting scholar&quot; type - an old wizened scribe who had studied the sword.&nbsp; The only reason I didn't make him a kensei monk was because my previous character was a kensei monk (I really did enjoy it, but I was under the impression at the time that this campaign would be revived (it never was, alas)).&nbsp; But a Kensei monk would totally have worked.So I made him a psi warrior - totally fit the theme too.&nbsp; Later in the game he died and was remade as a rune knight, which made sense because he was studying the giants intensely as we played through STK.&nbsp; Is a dex-build the best with rune knight?&nbsp; No!&nbsp; But it worked.&nbsp; Also, because he was playing sword and shield and the GM was generous with stats, I had a lot of feats to play around with so I took chef, which I refloored as alchemy - I would feed the other characters tonics and use poultices on their wounds, ritual caster (by level 10 I was quite the &quot;wizard&quot;), lucky (sooo good) and by the end of the game I had a sun sword.&nbsp; +11 to hit, 1d8+9 dmg for base damage (and various ways to add to it), runes to protect myself and the party...It didn't really matter if my character wasn't super optimal damage dealer, he was flavorful, fun and very useful - he was a big &quot;plot driver&quot; because he would use his scholarship to understand what was really going on.&nbsp; We made an alliance with the Storm Giants and [spoiler]kick dragon butt[/spoiler].&nbsp;&nbsp; Small differences in power level don't matter that much IMO.edit: typos</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 9246934, member: 23"] The dragonborn in the phb is definitely mechanically underwhelming. I remember seeing the race for the very first time, telling myself "omg this is going to be a powergamer's dream!" kept reading and went... huh. I have seen very few in my games, if any. Perhaps one or two one-shot types. One thing about 5e I do like is that it can tolerate a fair amount of reflavoring and slight tweaking. I had a character who was a "fighting scholar" type - an old wizened scribe who had studied the sword. The [I]only[/I] reason I didn't make him a kensei monk was because my previous character was a kensei monk (I really did enjoy it, but I was under the impression at the time that this campaign would be revived (it never was, alas)). But a Kensei monk would totally have worked. So I made him a psi warrior - totally fit the theme too. Later in the game he died and was remade as a rune knight, which made sense because he was studying the giants intensely as we played through STK. Is a dex-build the best with rune knight? No! But it worked. Also, because he was playing sword and shield and the GM was generous with stats, I had a lot of feats to play around with so I took chef, which I refloored as [I]alchemy[/I] - I would feed the other characters tonics and use poultices on their wounds, ritual caster (by level 10 I was quite the "wizard"), lucky (sooo good) and by the end of the game I had a sun sword. +11 to hit, 1d8+9 dmg for base damage (and various ways to add to it), runes to protect myself and the party... It didn't really matter if my character wasn't super optimal damage dealer, he was flavorful, fun and very useful - he was a big "plot driver" because he would use his scholarship to understand what was really going on. We made an alliance with the Storm Giants and [spoiler]kick dragon butt[/spoiler]. Small differences in power level don't matter that much IMO. edit: typos [/QUOTE]

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